Unexpected encounter – Argentine ants in Nantes, France
I was recently contacted by Myrmecological News’ blog to write a post about our paper recently published in Insectes Sociaux: “Invasive in the North: New...
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Ants effectively control the damaging pear psyllid in Mediterranean orchards
In the recently published article “Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) reduce the density of Cacopsylla pyri (Linnaeus, 1761) in Mediterranean pear orchards” published in Myrmecological News, Sanchez,...
Book review “Le formiche del Veneto / The Ants of Veneto”
Scupola, A., 2018. Le formiche del Veneto / The ants of Veneto. WBA Handbooks 9. WBA Project Ed., Verona, Italy. 336 pp. EUR 38.00 A Book...
Women’s History: Adele Marion Fielde
In some countries, March is Women’s History Month and a good time to remember the work of women who studied ants in centuries past.One such...
Ants to monitor pollution
Lauren Jacquier is a PhD student at the Sorbonne Université in Paris and is supervised by Mathieu Molet. In her PhD, she and her colleagues...
A new open and upgradable database reveals the geographical distribution of Mexican ants
In the recently published article “MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface” in Ecology, Wesley Dáttilo and colleagues compiled all information available on...
First record of the genus Overbeckia in Australia
In the recently published article “First record of the formicine genus Overbeckia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Australia” in Myrmecol. News, author Brian Heterick describes specimens of...
Book Review on Hormigas de Colombia
Fernando Fernández Castiblanco, Roberto José Guerrero Flórez, Thibaut Delsinne (eds.). 2019. Hormigas de Colombia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, eISBN: 9789587837667. COP 49.900, EUR approx. 14...
Myrmecologenesis: rain forests, research, and a rejection letter
Lukas Schrader is an assistant researcher at the Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity at the University of Münster, Germany. His work focuses on the evolution...
Cuticular hydrocarbons in ants and other insects
In the recently published review article “Cuticular hydrocarbons in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and other insects: how and why they differ among individuals, colonies, and species”...
